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Flow Behavior Confusion: Condition Block Skipped but Subsequent Actions Still Executed

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Hi everyone,

I'm running into an issue in my Power Automate flow and would appreciate some insights.

Here's the scenario:

  • The flow creates a migration request, parses JSON, and then attempts to associate a work item with the migration request.

  • If this association fails, it should execute ‘Cancel Migration Request 3’.

  • If it succeeds, it should proceed to a ‘Condition’ block, which determines whether to send failure emails or not.

Now here's the unexpected behavior:

  • The ‘Associate Work Item with Migration Request’ step fails (which is expected in some test cases).

  • As expected, ‘Cancel Migration Request 3’ executes, and the ‘Condition’ block is skipped.

  • However, the ‘Send Failure Email’ actions that are placed under the ‘Condition’ block’s are still executed — even though the condition itself didn’t run.

This seems odd — if the condition was skipped, why are actions inside one of its branches being triggered?

Has anyone experienced something similar? 

Thanks in advance for your help!

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    David_MA Profile Picture
    14,605 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
    Have you checked the run after values to make sure it is only set to run if the action before it is successful and doesn't have has failed checked?
    On the right side of your parallel branch, which looks like it is set to only run if the action above it fails, below the existing action add a terminate flow action.
     
    You should also check that the two e-mails under the condition only run if the condition is successful and is skipped is not checked. 

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